WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2024
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Lisa – Vince once rented a skid steer. I don’t know why he didn’t spread all the dirt we had. Now I’ll have to do it this summer because I do not want that pile of dirt. When they installed the pool, they left a pile of dirt. OK, that I can understand. But Vince did nothing about it for years. Finally, I got so fed up that I cut all the weeds growing on it down and hired someone to spread that dirt. I don’t want the same thing to happen with this pile
Tina – I hope your hubby is better soon. Please keep us informed
Allie – this afternoon we had HIGH and I do mean high winds
How I want my car back! Seriously, if somethng doesn’t happen soon, I’m thinking that maybe I need some therapy. I just don’t seem to have the motivation that I used to have. I always wanted to go for a walk, now I really don’t care if I do or not. And that’s just not like me. I feel sick to my stomach every time I look at my car. I don't know, maybe it's just depression on my part. Guess we shall see what the future holds
Went to go see the play "Butterflies in Overalls". There were some parts that were quite funny. Enjoyed myself.
Michele NC
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The mister is still sick. We are wondering if it's RSV. He's had what seemed to be a cold, but then he got a fever and says his lungs feel weird. I hope it's not pneumonia. It's been a week.
Tina in CA
COVID?
There are 786,167 reported active cases with another 1,151 reported yesterday in the US.
Can you get one of those tests that shows both COVID and flu or maybe all three: COVID, flu, RSV?
M in Oz1 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Tina - Hope the mister doesn't have p-monia. Never fun, and debilitating. On the subject of your legs, I think we're too hard on ourselves in terms of body image, but we all have to live inside our bodies. I gave up on getting mine to look good, I just want it to work! 😀👀🙃
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
I really like the way my legs used to look, especially when I wore dresses. There is really no reason I cannot get them (and the rest of me) back into shape.
Tina in CA
Do you have stairs you can climb up and down where you are?
M in Oz1 -
Regarding our new house ... it's a "next step". We needed a place that my husband could get around easier - a place where he isn't in danger of slipping and falling like he is in the place we rent. He's had a few falls here.
We also wanted a place where it was easier to do the sport we love - cycling.
Our new house won't be our "forever home". It's a transitional step. Our next step will likely be an independent living community which is close to medical services and with very little garden to take care of.
The move we're doing now happened earlier than I expected ... who knows when the next move will happen.
Machka in Oz
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Whidislander wrote: »Maybe that's just life, telling us to live happily in a smaller radius. I am content in my happy, quietness. I think the only thing I get nervous about, is when my sister comes to visit she will be so bored, and make me feel like my life isn't adequate enough. How do you explain to someone after years of medical issues with husband, and moving around every 4 years, that the contentment of life is the stillness?
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
You and your sister are on Facebook?
I follow a site called The Simplicity Habit: https://www.facebook.com/TheSimplicityHabit and another called Becoming Unbusy: https://www.facebook.com/BecomingUnbusy
A third is Happy Organised Life: https://www.facebook.com/happyorganizedlifeblog
Many of the images they post resonate with me. Maybe start posting some of the ones that resonate with you to drop the hint about the kind of life you like to your sister.
Machka in Oz
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »How do you explain to someone after years of medical issues with husband, and moving around every 4 years, that the contentment of life is the stillness?
Rebecca
Rebecca ... you don't ... because unless someone has walked in those shoes, they have no real understanding. Your life is just that ... your life ... and it is more than adequate to you.
Beth
Or, if you're from the South, when they tell you your life is inadequate, you say, "Well bless your heart, it's so nice you think that way!" And you smile with all your teeth. 😁
It's a phrase I've used on more than one occasion. Very handy. 🙃👀😀
Love,
Lisa
I need an arsenal of great phrases! I will add it to my list.👍🏼💖
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Whidislander wrote: »
Maybe that's just life, telling us to live happily in a smaller radius. I am content in my happy, quietness. I think the only thing I get nervous about, is when my sister comes to visit she will be so bored, and make me feel like my life isn't adequate enough. How do you explain to someone after years of medical issues with husband, and moving around every 4 years, that the contentment of life is the stillness?
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
Rebecca ... you don't ... because unless someone has walked in those shoes, they have no real understanding. Your life is just that ... your life ... and it is more than adequate to you.
Beth
Yes very true. I need to not feel like I have to explain, it is my life, and yep very adequate.👍🏼💖
Hugs!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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It's no one's business to decide if someone else's life is adequate or not. That is such an individual choice. I have learned to not care about anyone's opinions on my life. It's mine. I don't judge theirs.
I decided, perhaps stupidly, to start doing P90X workouts on my legs again. The only time I really got definition in my legs was when I was religiously doing that one. So, I'll give it a try and see how I feel. I'm exhausted. Tomorrow will be interesting.
I just looked at my legs today and they were too jiggly for my taste. I need to focus on exercise again. I've been pretty lax lately and it's showing.
The mister is still sick. We are wondering if it's RSV. He's had what seemed to be a cold, but then he got a fever and says his lungs feel weird. I hope it's not pneumonia. It's been a week.
Tina in CA
My sisters life is so much more physical. I mean for example, if she needs to take the bins to the curb she needs to put them in the bucket of her tractor and drive them down. While husband and I just wheel them a bit and done. She weeds 5 huge beds, while I weed nothing. So her life is very different than mine. She asked me once if my life was fulfilling. Because in her eyes it just seemed less so. When (or if) she comes visit this year, I will probably have to have a sit down conversation on our individual ideas of our lives. Just a lot of feelings not expressed on that subject. We are at a good place though, so just things I have had on my mind that she needs to hear. Being her little sister though, I do tend to give in, to regress a bit, and tend to not give my opinions. I think the whole little sister thing needs to be hung up, I'm 61 yrs old for gosh sakes.😂
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Whidislander wrote: »Maybe that's just life, telling us to live happily in a smaller radius. I am content in my happy, quietness. I think the only thing I get nervous about, is when my sister comes to visit she will be so bored, and make me feel like my life isn't adequate enough. How do you explain to someone after years of medical issues with husband, and moving around every 4 years, that the contentment of life is the stillness?
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
You and your sister are on Facebook?
I follow a site called The Simplicity Habit: https://www.facebook.com/TheSimplicityHabit and another called Becoming Unbusy: https://www.facebook.com/BecomingUnbusy
A third is Happy Organised Life: https://www.facebook.com/happyorganizedlifeblog
Many of the images they post resonate with me. Maybe start posting some of the ones that resonate with you to drop the hint about the kind of life you like to your sister.
Machka in Oz
I have joined some of these! Thank you!
She knows that I have embraced minimalism, intermittent fasting, though she doesn't understand either. When I stated that I had 40 or so clothes items, she equated that to not caring about how I look. Its not that at all. Its just I refuse to have clothes I hope to get into one day, or ones I used to love to wear but can't. Every item I have is something I don't have to think about (does it fit or not). There is only so much self esteem sabotage you should endure every morning. I just refuse to participate. So though it might look to most that I am not concerned with my appearance, I really just keep it simple. All this I tried to tell her when she declared she was buying me clothes one summer when visiting her. 🙄😳😂
Rebecca
Whidbey
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We had our final Beginners Fencing lesson today. It's quite a workout! And it was hot in the gym today.
I'm hoping to go to some of the club meetings to practice the skills, but will take a little break in order to work on the house.
And then I worked a bit in the garden.
About the noisy neighbour a couple houses down ...I'm beginning to think that he's like Sue's tenant. Evidently he takes photos of the people who come visit our neighbour across the road and yells that he's taking the photos to his lawyer. No one has any idea why. Our neighbour across the road is a nice older couple, and the people who come visit them are their adult kids and little grandchildren! But one of the "kids" IS a lawyer who is as baffled as the rest of us.
And the noisy neighbour continues to play his TV or radio at full blast, facing an open window so that we all can hear it. Today, I was working in the part of the garden closest to his place, so I brought my phone out so I could play classical music fairly loudly.
But at the same time, he was yelling something out his window at us all again.
I'm kinda glad we're moving. It's getting a bit old.
Tomorrow we're going to a beekeeping meeting!
I feel like there's a theme here. We must like white jackets and masks.
Machka in Oz
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Debbie - The only one my Fitbit just can't cope with is when I'm on the little lawn tractor, it thinks I'm either on an "outdoor bike" or running. I can't make it stop logging that movement as steps, but in the settings for the device, there is one for "auto-exercise recognition." You can turn that off, or if you want it to recognize when you're walking, say, you can set the other individual ones to "ignore."
Rebecca - Oddly enough, your relationship with your sister is much like mine with my best friend, who's four years younger, but acts more like a big sister. Over the years, I've had to fend her off from trying to change my entire work wardrobe (she thought my bras carried my accouterments far too low 🙄 and that was 20 years ago!) and fix my life in various other ways. One thing I've found though is that she is much, much less big sisterly when she is out of her territory and on mine. At her house, she was always trying to fix me. At my house, she drops out of that fix-y mode and just becomes my friend.
Corey brought home the piece of big equipment, and he had described it wrong - this is what he actually brought - a mini track loader:
They call it that, but it's taller than me. You stand up on the back of it and can then lift up to a thousand pounds (450+ kg) without any effort at all... He put me up on it the minute he pulled it off the trailer, and I was able to scoop up the first load of dirt for my flower bed and put it right next to it... I know it's weird, but it was so much fun! So much power in one place, very simple, drives and operates much like a video game controller.
Went looking for what his boss saved us by letting him bring it home for the weekend, and it was over $1,000 for a weekend rental, so significant. Of course, he also knows if Corey breaks it, he'll fix it because that's his job, so it wasn't much of a risk... 😻
Anyway - I was out cold in the bed by 7:30 last night, I guess pulling the siding off the carport walls just wore me out this week. I was up far too early this morning, but I woke up feeling great, so there's that. Looking forward to a day outside, getting my flowerbed sorted out finally. Corey wants to take the loader back tomorrow late afternoon, so we are planning on our first restaurant meal out in at least a year. Looking forward to that, too.
Hope it is or was a good day for everyone... The sky is just beginning to lighten here, but the birds are already singing to welcome the sun. We are on the path of the cicada emergence, but they were around a lot when we first moved here six years ago, not too worried about it. Egg likes bringing them inside and poking them until they scream--they sound like an air raid siren, and she thinks that's funny, apparently.
Love,
Lisa in Arkansas5 -
Good morning ladies!
I'm excited to be going to a tea party this afternoon. It's for a new church where I hope to make friends. I have an outfit set out, but I haven't tried it on yet. And I have to do something with my hair to keep the fascinator in place.
I told my dad I would be home around six, and he said we could have a late supper at six. So I guess I better pick up something for him on the way home.
I've been wondering what to do with my purse while I'm at the party. I might hide it in the car.
Meanwhile, my scale read high this morning so I stepped off and stepped back on, and it came down a pound. It shakes my faith in the whole plan! So bizarre. It's only a few months old.
I read your posts this morning at five, then went back to sleep. Hugs to you all!
Have a great day! May you be happy, healthy, safe and free!
Annie in Delaware6 -
Anniesquats100 wrote: »I've been wondering what to do with my purse while I'm at the party. I might hide it in the car.
Meanwhile, my scale read high this morning so I stepped off and stepped back on, and it came down a pound. It shakes my faith in the whole plan! So bizarre. It's only a few months old.
Annie in Delaware
Scales do that.
First, they have to be on a hard surface.
Second, I "reset" mine periodically by standing on it with one foot and with much of my weight on the other foot so that my weight comes up at about half what it is. Then I let it turn off and turn it on again. Often it will show my weight as something different from what it was all week. I've read somewhere that some scales can hold a certain weight for a while and won't change unless something a certain percentage over or under that weight is on the scale. Look up hold and peak hold.
I have a couple small purses that hold my phone, a couple tissues, a small comb and lipgloss. They're crossbody purses so I can wear them at events and hardly notice they are there. And they're cute.
Something like this:
M in Oz5 -
Happy Saturday all!
Reading some of these comments reminds me of a saying that has always rung true.
The happiest people do not have the best or everything, they make the best of everything
Some people need constant stimulation and are always chasing for something. Some are able to find joy in what they have. Envy really is the thief of joy and happiness isn't measured the same way by people. My life may not suit everyone but it's not supposed to.
Enjoy your small pleasures ladies
Rusty in Yorkshire11 -
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Weird!! MFP logged me out while I was reading this thread! I was going to post something, but the Comment section was not showing. I then noticed it was asking me to log in?? IDK. ANYWAY. All the talk about ‘Warmies” had me looking them up on Amazon and I got the scented Sloth. Smelled so nice of lavender when I opened the package. I tried it on my lower back this morning and love it!! Now I need to get a bigger one for my DH’s legs. He has circulation issues and they often hurt. I’ll have to let him try mine first. Thanks for the suggestion! Here is the first, of many I predict, Warmie I now own.
RVRita in Roswell, HMMM no wonder I was ‘mysteriously” logged out!!
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Today is Scrabble and Peach Cobbler…..
RVRita
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Machka thanks for the tip about resetting the scale. I think it worked!
I did twenty eight minutes on my bike and twenty minutes walking! Yay!
My dad is out mowing the yard. He was fussing that he has to rest often. Most men don't even live to be his age, let alone stay active enough to mow the lawn! I need to be ready to get help this summer.
Annie in Delaware5 -
Breaking news ...... I have got all my Saga money. The two cheques arrived in the post today, and , when I checked my bank account, the refunds are in there. Soooooo relieved! I can pay the cheques into the post office, rather than having to go to the bank, and John can drive me there. It's only a few streets away, but too far for me at the moment. The money, most of it John's, will nearly pay for the first hip.
Pleased with myself for changing my bed linen today and switching to a summer weight duvet. It's only a single bed, so easy enough.
Annie - I have one of those sling purses for my cruises. Very useful. I take my phone, cabin card, lipstick, comb.
I then decided to celebrate the season with wearing a new long-sleeved t shirt! It's dark navy, so I put a bright blue camisole underneath to layer and wore my opal necklace. And I've ordered a long royal blue one. My long black house dress arrived yesterday, for wearing after the operation for a couple of days and nights. It looks great,and I'm loving my hands free slip on trainers. Hooray!
Just going downstairs to put the duck legs in the oven.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
Rita- Miles has a alligator Warmies that will probably be used for the twins.
Im going to get dressed and vacuum the place.. and put clean clothes away.3 -
Good afternoon, my little chickadees.
Rusty: My brother and 3 nephews and their families live in Yorkshire. My SiL comes from Harrogate. One nephew lives in Halifax. It’s a lovely part of the country.
Debbie: My Fitbit frequently says I have done elliptical or some other exercise, when I have done HIIT. I just change it. 😝
Lanette: Those soles push-ups sound like the heel raises I do.
Michele: So sorry about the car prang. I hope you haven’t suffered and lasting damage.
Heather: Delighted that you got your refund organised. Hope you can knock that UTI out quickly.
Lisa: You are so industrious. 🥰 the ‘quilt’ clock.
Kim: Commiserations. It’s so difficult to deal with the decline of our elders. Vent here any time, m’dear.
I’m having an active rest day. It’s been very changeable. I had to sit in the car for 5 minutes until a heavy shower passed over, when I came home from shopping. I’ve spent most of the afternoon catching up with you all, and doing an online jigsaw.
I will visit my elder daughter after lunch tomorrow. Then I’m out morning and afternoon on Monday. (Creative Writing and Monday Painters) I’m all set for them both. Then nothing planned until Latin Study Group on Friday morning, except my prep for that.
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The mister is still sick. We are wondering if it's RSV. He's had what seemed to be a cold, but then he got a fever and says his lungs feel weird. I hope it's not pneumonia. It's been a week.
Tina in CA
COVID?
There are 786,167 reported active cases with another 1,151 reported yesterday in the US.
Can you get one of those tests that shows both COVID and flu or maybe all three: COVID, flu, RSV?
M in Oz
He tested negative for COVID twice. In order to get tested for RSV, he has to go to the doc, but they will tell him to wait it out anyway, so what's the point. Same with the flu. He's been sleeping really late, so hopefully that will help. If his lungs don't improve, he will go get an x-ray.
Tina in CA4 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Tina - Hope the mister doesn't have p-monia. Never fun, and debilitating. On the subject of your legs, I think we're too hard on ourselves in terms of body image, but we all have to live inside our bodies. I gave up on getting mine to look good, I just want it to work! 😀👀🙃
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
I really like the way my legs used to look, especially when I wore dresses. There is really no reason I cannot get them (and the rest of me) back into shape.
Tina in CA
Do you have stairs you can climb up and down where you are?
M in Oz
We do not have stairs, by design. Since I work from home, I have to go somewhere to do it and if I'm going to go somewhere, I'm going to walk and/or run.
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Whidislander wrote: »It's no one's business to decide if someone else's life is adequate or not. That is such an individual choice. I have learned to not care about anyone's opinions on my life. It's mine. I don't judge theirs.
Tina in CA
My sisters life is so much more physical. I mean for example, if she needs to take the bins to the curb she needs to put them in the bucket of her tractor and drive them down. While husband and I just wheel them a bit and done. She weeds 5 huge beds, while I weed nothing. So her life is very different than mine. She asked me once if my life was fulfilling. Because in her eyes it just seemed less so. When (or if) she comes visit this year, I will probably have to have a sit down conversation on our individual ideas of our lives. Just a lot of feelings not expressed on that subject. We are at a good place though, so just things I have had on my mind that she needs to hear. Being her little sister though, I do tend to give in, to regress a bit, and tend to not give my opinions. I think the whole little sister thing needs to be hung up, I'm 61 yrs old for gosh sakes.😂
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
I'm told that your kids are always your kids, no matter how old they get. It's the same with siblings...probably more so with sisters. I will always be my older sisters' little sis and my younger ones will always be just that. I want to protect them like she wants to protect me. So even if you're 61, you're still her little sis. Enjoy it. Not everyone has the pleasure of having siblings and I cannot imagine it any other way.
Tina in CA
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Debbie - The only one my Fitbit just can't cope with is when I'm on the little lawn tractor, it thinks I'm either on an "outdoor bike" or running. I can't make it stop logging that movement as steps, but in the settings for the device, there is one for "auto-exercise recognition." You can turn that off, or if you want it to recognize when you're walking, say, you can set the other individual ones to "ignore."
Rebecca - Oddly enough, your relationship with your sister is much like mine with my best friend, who's four years younger, but acts more like a big sister. Over the years, I've had to fend her off from trying to change my entire work wardrobe (she thought my bras carried my accouterments far too low 🙄 and that was 20 years ago!) and fix my life in various other ways. One thing I've found though is that she is much, much less big sisterly when she is out of her territory and on mine. At her house, she was always trying to fix me. At my house, she drops out of that fix-y mode and just becomes my friend.
Corey brought home the piece of big equipment, and he had described it wrong - this is what he actually brought - a mini track loader:
They call it that, but it's taller than me. You stand up on the back of it and can then lift up to a thousand pounds (450+ kg) without any effort at all... He put me up on it the minute he pulled it off the trailer, and I was able to scoop up the first load of dirt for my flower bed and put it right next to it... I know it's weird, but it was so much fun! So much power in one place, very simple, drives and operates much like a video game controller.
Went looking for what his boss saved us by letting him bring it home for the weekend, and it was over $1,000 for a weekend rental, so significant. Of course, he also knows if Corey breaks it, he'll fix it because that's his job, so it wasn't much of a risk... 😻
Anyway - I was out cold in the bed by 7:30 last night, I guess pulling the siding off the carport walls just wore me out this week. I was up far too early this morning, but I woke up feeling great, so there's that. Looking forward to a day outside, getting my flowerbed sorted out finally. Corey wants to take the loader back tomorrow late afternoon, so we are planning on our first restaurant meal out in at least a year. Looking forward to that, too.
Hope it is or was a good day for everyone... The sky is just beginning to lighten here, but the birds are already singing to welcome the sun. We are on the path of the cicada emergence, but they were around a lot when we first moved here six years ago, not too worried about it. Egg likes bringing them inside and poking them until they scream--they sound like an air raid siren, and she thinks that's funny, apparently.
Love,
Lisa in Arkansas
I hope my sister does that as well, because she's at my home. The last time she visited my home, we were living at the coast and it was 2016. Actually its been since 2017 that my middle son has come to our home too. Athena has never visited me.
Pretty fancy equipment there! Enjoy the weekend!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Weird!! MFP logged me out while I was reading this thread! I was going to post something, but the Comment section was not showing. I then noticed it was asking me to log in?? IDK. ANYWAY. All the talk about ‘Warmies” had me looking them up on Amazon and I got the scented Sloth. Smelled so nice of lavender when I opened the package. I tried it on my lower back this morning and love it!! Now I need to get a bigger one for my DH’s legs. He has circulation issues and they often hurt. I’ll have to let him try mine first. Thanks for the suggestion! Here is the first, of many I predict, Warmie I now own.
RVRita in Roswell, HMMM no wonder I was ‘mysteriously” logged out!!
That has happened to me off and on. Luckily its an easy fix.
Now I need to look up warmies! They sound inviting! That sloth is adorable!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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We had our final Beginners Fencing lesson today. It's quite a workout! And it was hot in the gym today.
I'm hoping to go to some of the club meetings to practice the skills, but will take a little break in order to work on the house.
And then I worked a bit in the garden.
About the noisy neighbour a couple houses down ...I'm beginning to think that he's like Sue's tenant. Evidently he takes photos of the people who come visit our neighbour across the road and yells that he's taking the photos to his lawyer. No one has any idea why. Our neighbour across the road is a nice older couple, and the people who come visit them are their adult kids and little grandchildren! But one of the "kids" IS a lawyer who is as baffled as the rest of us.
And the noisy neighbour continues to play his TV or radio at full blast, facing an open window so that we all can hear it. Today, I was working in the part of the garden closest to his place, so I brought my phone out so I could play classical music fairly loudly.
But at the same time, he was yelling something out his window at us all again.
I'm kinda glad we're moving. It's getting a bit old.
Tomorrow we're going to a beekeeping meeting!
I feel like there's a theme here. We must like white jackets and masks.
Machka in Oz
Great photos! I do notice you like wearing helmets, and hoods! Activities where there is some protection of some sort.😁👍🏼 I am always amazed at your desire to expand your knowledge, and persevere with it.👍🏼 as my momma would say "good on ya"!
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa
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